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Definition of Nosed

1. Adjective. Having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind.

Definition of Nosed

1. a. Having a nose, or such a nose; -- chieflay used in composition; as, pug- nosed.

Definition of Nosed

1. Adjective. (''in combination'') Having some specific type of nose ¹

2. Verb. (past of nose) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nosed

1. nose [v] - See also: nose

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nosed

Literary usage of Nosed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"The Flat-nosed Snakes are of moderate size; they occur in the southwestern United ... Whitish; about thirty blotches on back. PENINSULA FLAT-nosed SNAKE, ..."

2. Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Leo Wiener (1903)
"Among his best productions are Red-nosed Frost, Who Lives in Russia Happily f The Peddlers, and a large number of shorter poems. ..."

3. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"Narrow-nosed Apes (of the Old World) and Flat-nosed Apes (of America). ... Origin of Man from Narrow-nosed Apes.—-Human Apes, or Anthropoidea. ..."

4. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"309) is probably a The shovel-nosed skate (figs. ... Shovel-nosed skate engraved on a tobacco and ..."

5. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"... inhabits antarctic seas, but sometimes wanders northward, and is said to have been seen in Tampa Bay, Florida. The YELLOW-nosed ALBATROSS (S3. ..."

6. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"At this point of his discourse, the reverend and red-nosed gentleman became ... said Sam, when the red-nosed man, having finished, pulled his worn gloves on ..."

7. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1916)
"Some discussion has arisen over the issue to British troops of blunt-nosed revolver bullets. The Germans assert that this bullet causes unnecessary ..."

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